How to Create a Business Website with AI in One Evening

Before you open the cabinet: 20 minutes of preparation

The quality of an AI-generated site depends mostly on what you tell it. Spend the first twenty minutes writing things down, away from the screen. You will need five things.

• What you sell, in two or three plain sentences.
• Who your customers are and what problem they come to you with.
• Your contacts: phone, e-mail, address, working hours, social links.
• Two or three sites you like, ideally as screenshots.
• A logo and a few real photos if you have them.

If the brief itself is what worries you, read How to write a brief that gets a good AI-generated site first. It is the single biggest lever on the result.

Step 1: create an account

Open the cabinet in your browser; there is nothing to install. Sign up with an e-mail address and a password, or with your Google account. The free plan gives you welcome credits, so you can generate a first site without entering a card. Credits are the currency of the cabinet: generating and redesigning things spends them, and you can see the cost before you confirm. The details are on the pricing page.

Step 2: fill in the brief wizard

The wizard is a short sequence of questions, and it is where most of the value is created.

1. Pages. Pick the pages you need: home, services, about, contacts, a price list. A small business rarely needs more than four or five.
2. Blocks. For every page choose the blocks: hero, services, benefits, reviews section, FAQ, contact form, map. You are defining the skeleton.
3. Description. Describe the business in your own words. Mention the city or region if you serve a local market.
4. Tone of voice. Friendly, formal, premium, playful. The AI writes the copy in this voice.
5. Language, palette and corners. Choose the site language, a colour scheme and whether corners are sharp or rounded.
6. Reference screenshot. On the plans that include references, upload one screenshot of a site whose structure and mood you like.

Step 3: generate and read what you got

Start the generation. The AI writes the page structure and the copy, then designs the pages. Depending on the plan you can pick the designer generation, which spends more credits for a more individual layout, or the basic generation, which is cheaper and faster. When it is done, do not edit yet. Read the whole site from top to bottom as a visitor would.

Ask three questions. Is it obvious in five seconds what you do? Is the next step, call or request or order, clear on every page? Is anything factually wrong? The AI does not know your prices, delivery area or guarantees unless you told it.

Step 4: edit visually and with the AI chat

The cabinet has a visual editor: click a text and change it, swap a block, reorder sections. For bigger changes you can ask the AI in plain language, for example to make the services section shorter or to rewrite the hero in a warmer tone. If one block does not work, you can redesign just that block instead of regenerating the whole page.

What to fix first

• Facts: prices, addresses, hours, names, phone numbers.
• The hero headline and the button label.
• Anything that sounds generic. Replace it with a concrete detail only you know.
• The order of sections: put the strongest proof near the top.

Step 5: photos

Image slots are filled with stock photos automatically, so the site does not look empty. Real photos of your product, team and premises are always better. Replace the stock images on the home page and the about page first; those are the pages where people judge whether you are real.

Step 6: check the search basics

Before publishing, open the page settings and check the title and description of each page. They are what people see in search results. The cabinet prepares them from your brief, but only you know the words your customers actually type. Our guide to SEO basics for a new small-business site lists what to check.

Step 7: publish

You can publish on a Fastiway address immediately, connect your own domain on a paid plan, or export the site as a static ZIP on the plans that include export. If you are not sure which fits, see Publishing: Fastiway address, your own domain or a static ZIP. For a first launch, a Fastiway address is the fastest option; you can attach a domain later.

A realistic evening

• Preparation and brief: 30 to 45 minutes.
• Generation and first read-through: 15 minutes.
• Editing facts and copy: 45 to 60 minutes.
• Photos, search settings and a check on your phone: 30 minutes.
• Publishing: 10 minutes.

That is an evening, not a month. The site will not be perfect, and it does not need to be. A published site you improve every week beats a perfect one that never leaves your drafts. Once it is live, update the photos, add blog posts if your plan includes the blog, and watch which pages people open.

Common mistakes on a first site

• Asking for ten pages when four would do.
• Leaving the description to one line and expecting the AI to guess the rest.
• Publishing without reading the prices, hours and phone numbers.
• Keeping every stock photo on the home page.
• Skipping a check on a real phone.

Each of these takes minutes to avoid and saves hours later. The AI draft is a strong starting point, but it is your name on the site, so the final read is yours.